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H. Townsend  \nThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online [at www.gutenberg.org](at www.gutenberg.org)  \nTitle: Jane Eyre an Autobiography  \nAuthor: Charlotte Bronte  \nRelease Date: April 29, 2007 [eBook \\#1260]  \nLanguage: English  \nCharacter set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)  \n***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JANE EYRE***  \nTranscribed from the 1897 Service & Paton edition by David Price, [email ccx074@pglaf.org](email ccx074@pglaf.org)  \nJANE EYRE  \nAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY  \nby  \nCHARLOTTE BRONTË  \nILLUSTRATED BY F. H. TOWNSEND  \nLondon  \nSERVICE & PATON  \n5 henrietta street  \n1897  \nThe Illustrations  \nin this Volume are the copyright of  \nService & Paton, London  \nTO  \nW. M. THACKERAY, Esq.,  \nThis Work is respectfully inscribed  \nby THE AUTHOR  \nPREFACE  \nA preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.  \nMy thanks are due in three quarters.  \nTo the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.  \nTo the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.  \nTo my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author.  \nThe Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and highminded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart  \nsay cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart.  \nHaving thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as “Jane Eyre:” in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.  \nConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Topluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.  \nThese things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. 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It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.  \nAhab did not like Micaiah, because he never prophesied good concerning him, but evil; probably he liked the sycophant son of Chenaannah better; yet might Ahab have escaped a bloody death, had he but stopped his ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful counsel.  \nThere is a man in our own days w","cbCaivSF1GbKqRAG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivSF1GbKqRAG","pdf",4897165,370,"English","# Preface\n## Acknowledgments and public response\n## Criticism of conventionality\n## Distinction between morality and religion\n## Address to the reader and dedication\n# Note to the Third Edition","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote Jane Eyre in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"Charlotte Brontë is listed as the author of Jane Eyre.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the preface argue about conventionality and morality?\",\"answer\":\"The preface states that conventionality is not morality and self-righteousness is not religion, urging readers not to confuse appearance with truth.\"},{\"question\":\"To whom does the author dedicate the second edition?\",\"answer\":\"The author dedicates this second edition of Jane Eyre to W. 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